cra-template-redux VS redux-templates

The recommended way to initialize a new app with React and Redux is by using the official Redux+JS template or Redux+TS template.

https://github.com/kriasoft/react-firebase-starter is the most complete I found so far. Or you can go with the redux suggested template as well https://github.com/reduxjs/cra-template-redux .

The patterns shown in this tutorial are outdated and not what we currently recommend. "Modern Redux" code is very different than what this and other older tutorials show. We've introduced newer APIs like Redux Toolkit, which is a set of utilities that provide a light abstraction to simplify the most common Redux tasks, and the React-Redux hooks API, which is generally easier to use than the traditional connect API.

I strongly recommend reading through the newly rewritten official tutorials in the Redux docs, which have been specifically designed to teach you how Redux works and show our recommended practices:

- "Redux Essentials" tutorial [0]: teaches "how to use Redux, the right way", by building a real-world app using Redux Toolkit

- "Redux Fundamentals" tutorial [1]: teaches "how Redux works, from the bottom up", by showing how to write Redux code by hand and why standard usage patterns exist, and how Redux Toolkit simplifies those patterns

The older patterns shown in almost all other tutorials on the internet are still valid, but not how we recommend writing Redux code today.

You should also read through the Redux "Style Guide" docs page [2], which explains our recommended patterns and best practices. Following those will result in better and more maintainable Redux apps.

In addition, the easiest way to start a new project is with the official Redux+JS template for Create-React-App [3]. It comes with Redux Toolkit and the React-Redux hooks API already set up when the project is created.

[0] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-1-overview-co...

[1] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-1-overview

[2] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide

[3] https://github.com/reduxjs/cra-template-redux

In addition, the easiest way to start a new project is with the official Redux+JS template for Create-React-App. It comes with Redux Toolkit and the React-Redux hooks API already set up when the project is created.

We have a Redux template for Create-React-App that comes with Redux Toolkit already configured

Also, you can go with the official template for create-react-app, which will already give you a small application with modern redux to play around with: https://github.com/reduxjs/cra-template-redux

- I did check the template thoroughly but it seems like the folder structure conflicts with the one this tool offers. Usually an app's redux logic is kept under src/redux or src/store, whereas in the template it's kept in the folder containing the components's JSX/TSX file and it's Stylesheet, which felt quite weird to me. Also, the components are preferred to be kept under component directory under features. Although the folder structure conventions are highly debatable but this one is familiar with most devs.

Yeah, _please_ don't use `typesafe-actions` :)

It may have had some value before RTK came out, but a lot of the opinions and approaches shown in its docs lead you to write _wayyyy_ too much code. For example, we specifically recommend _against_ writing TS unions for action object types [0].

RTK completely obsoletes `typesafe-actions`, and the TS usage patterns that we teach today should result in a pretty minimal set of types that you need to write in your own code.

For a small example see the RTK+TS template for Create-React-App [1]. If you want to see what a real app codebase can look like, the client app for my day job at Replay.io is OSS [2]. It's admittedly a somewhat messy codebase due to its long evolution and legacy (started as the FF DevTools codebase, copy-pasted, and we've been slowly migrating to RTK+TS and modernizing it), but files like [3] show how I would write a real slice reducer with RTK+TS.

[0] https://redux.js.org/usage/usage-with-typescript#avoid-actio...

[1] https://github.com/reduxjs/cra-template-redux-typescript

[2] https://github.com/replayio/devtools

[3] https://github.com/replayio/devtools/blob/454804188d33900a26...

The recommended way to initialize a new app with React and Redux is by using the official Redux+JS template or Redux+TS template.

I learned the basics of react initially, and then when I started using typescript + react, I did so using the create-react-app typescript redux template. I found that having a template to build from was extremely helpful. I'm sure there are other good templates out there if you didn't want to worry about redux (I think it's good, but it's got it's own mental overhead), but being able to refer to the template implementation was extremely helpful, since the typings of some react things can be highly weird.

Please see the official Redux+TS template for CRA, which shows the correct "modern Redux" patterns in action, as well as the "Modern Redux with RTK" tutorial page and our recommended TS usage patterns.

btw, note that we have an official Redux+TS template for CRA that comes with RTK and React-Redux already configured.

Now the first two questions have been answered. Moving on to the next one, state management. I decided to use redux. Came across this amazing toolkit and this beautiful and friendly template template from the official reduxjs repository.